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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the...
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Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in...
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Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined...
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had...
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To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror...
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like...
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Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary...
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Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction....
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure,...
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If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of...